Internationalization and localization

We are currently hosting all translations of Open edX framework on www.transifex.com. Please feel free to make translation contributions there.

In order to run your Open edX instance under a different spoken language:

1. Configure your  ~/.transifexrc file:

    [https://www.transifex.com]
    hostname = https://www.transifex.com
    username = user
    password = pass
    token =

Token is left blank. You have to have permissions for the project (edx-platform) AFAIK - https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/edx-platform/ 

2. Add the language you want in conf/locale/config, for instance for the language es_419 (Spanish Latinamerican) it is going to be: 

{
 "locales" : ["en", "es_419"],
 "dummy-locale" : "fr"
}

3. Configure it in your lms/env/environment.py, for instance create one called dev_es.py with the following: 

from .dev import *

LANGUAGES = ( ('es_419', 'Spanish'), )
TIME_ZONE = 'America/Guayaquil'
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'es_419'

4. Execute the following commands in your edx-platform directory with your edx-platform virtualenv, replacing it with the language you want.

$ tx pull -l es_419
$ rake i18n:generate

5. When you launch your LMS instance you launch it with the environment:

$ rake lms[dev_es,0.0.0.0:8000]